yourfavouriteuncle wrote:There’s now hefty noises that the fella in charge is now carrying on with blatters previous regime of bribing the smaller nations with football parks and funding and extra budgets to ensure he stays in charge. It’s a fuck up.
I don't see how a three team group can work (not without being a mess anyway). Team A plays B, C has to sit around for 3/4 days so one of them can recover, play them, then the other comes in to play C (having had a week off) and they both know exactly what result they need in their final game.The Daddy wrote:The number of games played overall will increase from 64 to 80, but the number of games played by finalists remains at seven, the same as with 32 teams, but one group match will be replaced by a knockout match. The tournament will also be completed within 32 days, the same as previous 32-team tournaments
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has hinted that group matches ending in a draw could be decided by a penalty shoot-out, in order to stop sides playing for a result in a game to favour them both.
AndCallMeCharlie wrote:Strange the WC doesn’t have a player of the tournament Modric for me
You'll also get one team that's pretty weak in each group, which the other two will simply beat and qualify in most cases. And if that's their first game they can then rest players when they play each other. Most groups will be a waste of time, effectively.monkey wrote:I don't see how a three team group can work (not without being a mess anyway). Team A plays B, C has to sit around for 3/4 days so one of them can recover, play them, then the other comes in to play C (having had a week off) and they both know exactly what result they need in their final game.The number of games played overall will increase from 64 to 80, but the number of games played by finalists remains at seven, the same as with 32 teams, but one group match will be replaced by a knockout match. The tournament will also be completed within 32 days, the same as previous 32-team tournaments
WorKid wrote:Mbappe will probably get it, typical unimaginative/undeserved choice.
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